On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Richard Perez wrote:
> I'm using exim in a isolated network to control internal email. I
> have a fax server on the net to manage the fax stuff. My problem is
> that when people send emails to
> Person%PhoneNumber@??? I always get this message
> at eximon:
>
> 10:32:42 11GkI6-0000P3-00 == wewe%555@??? R=lookuphost defer (-1): host lookup did not complete
>
> I don´t know what kind of problem is. It´s seems to be a DNS
> problem, but i have the DNS localy , and the nslookup tool does the
> lookup fine.
"%" is an unfortunate choice, since it already means something
wewe%555@???
means send the mail to faxserver.mydomain.com, which should redeliver
the maail to
wewe@555
and the DNS failure is for the domain 555.
Look for percent_hack in the exim docs for some control over this "feature"
(it is controlled since can allow relaying).
Your best bet might be to choose a different character to separate
Name and PhoneNumber.
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
A.C.Aitchison@??? http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
